- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:44:18 +0000
- To: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
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Pat Hayes writes:
> knee-jerk: I'd not use 'quoting' as the label for what you define
> there. Its potentially misleading. Call it something like 'protecting'
> or 'masking' or some such. Its very like quoting, I know, but if it is
> quote then its a very special XML-elaboration-ish kind of quoting, and
> there are many other kinds.
Fair point, we'll maybe look for another name.
> Also, a genuine question: is there any use for a version of this which
> doesn't get deqoted on elaboration, an 'infinitely deep' protection?
I don't _think_ so. . .
By analogy with s-expressions, I'm not aware of any use-case which
motivates this, that is, we have
(list (quote a) (quote (sublist b c))) --> (a (sublist b c))
but there is nothing I'm aware of which behaves as you describe, e.g.
(list (quote a) (superquote (sublist b c))) --> (a (superquote (sublist b c)))
However, the fact that you ask the question suggests you may have some
precedent in mind?
ht
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